Leslie Jones arrives at the premiere of Ghostbusters in Hollywood. Photograph: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage

Hollywood stylists interviewed by Pret-a-Reporter last month said the 6ft actor and comedian was to blame.

“This is nobody’s fault except Leslie’s,” celebrity stylist Jessica Paster told the website. “She should have known four to five months ago the date of premiere, and said, ‘I’m not a sample size, I need to go to designers early or buy myself a dress.’ Don’t be blaming designers and saying they don’t like you.”

“Why even look at it like that? Back in the day, when I was coming up, the last page of Jet magazine was a guide to all the times black people were going to be on TV, because we were hardly on TV and we needed to see and support our people when we were,” Jones said in an interview with the Guardian. “So my thing is, my parents and grandparents would have been, ‘Woah! She is in a Big Movie! A superhero in a BLOCKbuster.’ Why wouldn’t you be dancing in the street?”

Jones said she thought her character represented “the people” and that she was the best fit for the role.

On Twitter, Jones seemed to respond to the controversy through her retweets of fans sharing their support after the premiere.